During four decades from the 1880s until his death in 1917, Thomas Lyons reigned as the dominant rancher in Grant County, both respected and feared. His LC Ranch in the southwest corner of the county stretched across a range—including leased federal land—of some 1.5 million acres, 40 miles from east to west and 60 miles […] Read More

We respectfully acknowledge that the entirety of southwestern New Mexico is the traditional territory, since time immemorial, of the Chis-Nde, also known as the people of the Chiricahua Apache Nation. The Chiricahua Apache Nation is recognized as a sovereign Native Nation by the United States in the Treaty of Amity, Commerce, and Friendship of 1 July 1852 (10 Stat. 979) (Treaty of Santa Fe ratified 23 March 1853 and proclaimed by President Franklin Pierce 25 March 1853).